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 V.— Architecture of Asia Minor. The most important of the native races who inhabited that part of Asia which lies between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean were the Lydians, the Phrygians, and Fig/14. — Rock-cut front of the so-called Grave of Midas at Doganlu the Lycians. Of these the Lydians were probably, in the reign of their King Gyges (about 700 B.C.), the most valiant. But about 550 B.C. Cyrus took their splendid city Sardis and joined their country to the great Persian Empire.